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Pragtical

The practical and pragmatic code editor

Lightweight

~50 MB of RAM, ~10 MB of disk space. Pragtical runs on many devices without performance issues.

Powerful

Syntax highlighting, multiple cursors, command palette and many more. LSP and other features are available as plugins.

Hyperextensible

Pragtical allows you to extend the editor via Lua and its C API. Documentation is available for many parts of the editor.

Cross-platform

Built on SDL, C and Lua, Pragtical runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. Porting to other systems is trivial.

Easy to Use

Easily change your editor settings, color theme, key bindings and installed plugins configuration using the graphical settings manager.

Free & Open Source

Pragtical is licensed under the MIT license. No telemetry or data collection.

Recent Blog Posts

Pragtical v3.11.2 is a focused bug-fix release that tightens file lookup behavior, fixes JavaScript syntax highlighting around regex literals, and ma…

A follow-up release that adds a welcome screen recent project context menu, polishes code folding behavior, improves line wrapping performance for lo…

Pragtical v3.11.0 is out with code folding support, generated settings views, faster rendering paths for large files, and a set of MarkdownView and t…

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